During consideration of the Fiscal Year 2000 appropriations bill for the Treasury Department and certain other federal agencies (S. 1282), pro-life Senator Mike DeWine (D-Oho) offered an amendment to prohibit health insurance plans covering federal employees' from paying for abortions (except to save the life of the mother, or in cases of rape or incest). Pro-abortion Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Ca.) offered a motion to table (kill) the DeWine Amendment. NRLC opposed the pro-abortion Boxer motion, and it failed, 47 yeas to 51 nays, Vote No. 197, July 1, 1999. The Senate then adopted the NRLC-backed DeWine Amendment on a voice vote, and it became law.